Achieving another major milestone toward volume shipments of its pioneering HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) technology, Seagate announced it has used its advanced HAMR technology to build and test the world’s first formatted and fully functioning 16TB enterprise hard drive platform in a standard 3.5-inch form factor — the highest capacity hard drives ever produced. Seagate is on track to grow beyond 20TB per drive in calendar 2020.

Hmmm, in a general move to conserve energy, I would wonder (1) how much power these drives consume compared to conventional hard drives or more importantly, SSDs, and (2) how much heat they produce? In a large data center, or even large server, both could be significant factors.